een the parlor and one of the
bedrooms, and both rooms were full of trunks and parcels. Every body was
busy packing and arranging. The ladies were showing each other their
different purchases, as they came in from the shops; and as soon as Mr.
George entered, they began to ask him whether he thought they would be
obliged to pay duty on this, or on that, when they arrived in America.

Rollo asked where Waldron was, and they said he was in his room, packing
his trunk. So Rollo went to find him.

"Ah, Rollo," said Waldron, "I am glad you have come. I want you to sit
on the top of my trunk with me, and make it shut down."

Rollo gave Waldron the assistance he required, and by the conjoined
gravity of both the boys the trunk was made to shut. Waldron turned the
key in an instant, and then said,--

"There! Get open again if you can. And now, Rollo," he continued, "tell
me about the castle."

"Well, we had a very good time visiting it," said Rollo. "We went over
the bridge where you and I stopped to look down to the market, and came
to High Street. But instead of turning down, as we did when we were
going to Holyrood, we turned _up_; because, you know, the castle is on
the top of the hill."

"Yes," said Waldron, "I knew that was the way."

"Well, we went up High Street," continued Rollo. "The upper part of it
is quite a handsome street. There were a great many large public
buildings. We passed by a great cathedral, where, they said, a woman
threw a stool at the minister, while he was preaching."

"What did she do that for?" asked Waldron.

"I don't know," said Rollo. "I suppose she did not like his preaching.
It was in the reformation times. I believe he was preaching Popery, and
she was a Protestant. Her name was Jenny Geddes. They have got the stool
now."

"They have?" exclaimed Waldron.

"Yes," said Rollo, "so uncle George said. They keep it in the
Antiquarian Museum, for a curiosity."

"When we got to the upper end of the High Street," continued Rollo,
"there was the castle all before us. Only first there was a parade
ground for the troops; it was all gravelled over."

"Were there any soldiers there?" asked Waldron.

"Yes," said Rollo, "there were two or three companies drilling and
parading."

"I should like to have seen them," said Waldron.

"Yes," said Rollo, "and besides, the parade ground was a splendid place.
The lower end of it was towards the street; the upper end was towards
the gates and wall